The best way to get this more simply...and more usefull...its to create an option in the setting of the applet... for when you one click or double click....you can execute command you want it....like this you can command to open your favorite application or whatever commands... the big clue....its in personnal launcher application... http://maemo.org/downloads/product/O...rsonal-launch/ Yes in fact, this application suggest to you to create an hildon applet application launcher...somes icon on your desktop...and when you click on it...that open it an application (executer in background by a command) so when you open the setting of this applet, you see you have a row for your icon at the left side....if you click the pencil for custumize your icon you see this menu : Like you see in this screenshot....you have the option to point one command to execute at root or/and terminal and you see an option for DBUS too i think its possible to take this code and adapted for all your applet (ring clock svgclock and flipcalendar) yes....you can make abstraction of icon cause your icon is your applet... but iam shure we can find a way to take the ''command'' option whith root and put this in option of any applet... like this in double-click...we got the application you want open it like a charm....or others commands too i make more investigation on this case...cause...why limited double or simple clicked at ONE application...when you have a good code for coocking a Full application routing for any desktop-applet follow more soon